Paul Griffiths

Key Responsibilities: • Responsible for the finance and operations of the company, reporting to the executive board. • Valuated investment portfolios and conducted due diligence on 50+ deep tech companies. • Successfully managed investments in 8 deep tech companies, delivering strong returns. • Provided regular updates on portfolio performance and valuation to the investment committee. • Mentored and guided startups, contributing to their growth and success. • Strategically planned long-term business strategies, set goals, and implemented initiatives to drive growth and profitability. • Implemented robust risk management frameworks and processes that effectively minimized potential risks. • Conducted financial analysis, including profitability analysis, cost control, budgeting, and forecasting. • Identified areas for process improvement and implemented strategies to streamline operations. • Ensured compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. Key Achievements: • Established and managed a fully tokenized VC ecosystem with £6 million of assets. • Raised over £3 million from global investors, resulting in a current valuation of £20 million. • Built full finance and operations infrastructure, including tokenomics and asset valuation models. • Implemented financial analysis models and tools, leading to improved forecasting accuracy and cost control measures. • Ensured full compliance with industry regulations, resulting in zero regulatory violations and penalties. • Led effective investor relations efforts, increasing investor confidence and successful fundraising initiatives.

Romco is a clean-tech metals recycling company that produces secondary materials for a wide range of OEMs and trading partners. With a strong sustainability focus, Romco is building a systematic, scalable model that thrives in emerging markets while committed to reducing the environmental impact of raw materials mining. Since its inception in 2015 and based in the UK with sites across West Africa, Romco utilizes blockchain technology to provide transparency and traceability throughout its value chain, giving industries the confidence to increase their use of recycled materials. Non-Executive Director/Board Chair Nov 2018 to date

Key Responsibilities: • Manage easyGroup's 78% investment reporting back to holding company board. • Recruited senior executive team to take the company forward. • Responsible for raising investment for the company through PROfounders Capital, a venture capital fund headed by Brent Hoberman, the LastMinute.com co-founder. • Stabilise business and launch a new innovative collaborative consumption car sharing scheme. • Attend monthly board meetings implementing effective management and growth of the business. Key Achievements: • New white label brokerage agreement saving costs whilst increasing conversion rates and gross margin giving an overall bottom line increase of 21% • Recruited new management team and restructured the main business to create a solid, profitable foundation for the company to grow.

Key Responsibilities: • Manage relationship with key charities we work with including WWF & Leonard Cheshire Disability. • Arrange annual awards and regular fund-raising events in UK, Cyprus, Greece and Monaco. • Manage annual giving of £1 m. • File annual Charities commission returns and report to Trustees on progress. • Manage annual donations of £1 .6m. Key Achievements: • Set up limited by guarantee company and registered UK charity. • Manage 20 annual scholarships with London School of Economics and CASS Business School. • Secured government support for our UK disabled entrepreneur award with Esther McVey MP attending several of our networking events and her successors as Minister of State for Disabled People also attending our awards in London. • Set up "Food from the Heart" Program in Greece and Cyprus giving away over 20k lunch snacks a month to struggling local residents and school children from 5 locations.

Key Responsibilities: • Report directly to the Monaco-based Chairman/shareholders, ensuring they are fully updated on UK businesses. • Accountable for annual revenues of £13 million, with dotted line responsibility for two other businesses generating annual revenues of £30 million. • Motivate and provide leadership to a team of 12, including Finance, Commercial, and Operations. • Manage connections with current and potential clients/brand licensees, such as easyJet plc, easyHotel plc, easyGym, easyProperty, and easyBus. • Foster strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, including investors, licensees, and company management up to and including PLC board members. • Serve as a senior representative of easyGroup on the brand protection committee alongside two senior easyJet PLC board members and external lawyers. • Oversee an annual budget of £1.1 million to protect the easy brand worldwide, managing external lawyers and reporting performance against agreed KPIs. • Develop new business ventures, leading them to the stage where they are ready for external investment and then managing the process through IPO or VC/PE backed funding. • Manage investments, property, HR, IT, legal, procurement, and corporate finance. • Strategically manage and plan the business, including financial modeling, reporting, and taking instructions from the holding company board. • Identify new business development opportunities through networking and direct approaches, leading due diligence and implementation. • Collaborate with external legal teams to negotiate commercial contracts and handle litigation related to branding or general matters. Key Achievements: • Served as Interim COO at easyHotel for approximately 18 months, managing the business during a period of restructuring and change. Collaborated with Stelios as Chairman/shareholder to implement robust processes and procedures, preparing the company for IPO. easyHotel, an owned and franchised hotel business, operates 18 hotels primarily across Europe, as well as in Dubai and Johannesburg. • Recruited a full management team and secured £8.7 million funding from NatWest, leading to a successful £50 million IPO on the AIM market. • Negotiated a new merchant payment processing account with Chase Paymentech across the group, reducing costs and eliminating delays in fund receipt for easyHotel from 28 days to zero, resulting in an additional £1.5 million cashflow within one month. • Collaborated with the Chairman to bring in VC investment to easyCar, then appointed to the board as NED to manage the handover, new product launch, and recruitment of a new senior team. • Implemented a complete change process at easyBus, restructuring the business and recruiting a new management team to position the company for future investment and growth. • Established a formal corporate governance policy, formulating effective business rules to protect the company and its assets, and taking the lead in addressing breaches of these rules. • Set up a panel of IP lawyers, ensuring the use of the most appropriate ones at the best possible price. • Managed licensees of the easyBrand, including easyGym, which currently operates 15 budget gyms across the UK and expands into Spain, and easyProperty, an online estate agency launched in September 2014. Also involved in fastjet, the first Pan African budget airline launched in 2011. • Completed the purchase of three key London properties, including the current head office.

AKT, a WYG Group company, is an award-winning Consulting Structural and Civil Engineers with an annual turnover of circa £20m. I was responsible for the finance function of the company reporting directly to the MD.

Responsible for the day-to-day running of this specialist music production and mail-order business. Dealt with accounts, supervised product design and production, and worked with third-party musicians and management companies to ensure timely production of new recordings. Managed the relationship with PPL & PRS to ensure proper registration of all recordings and collection of all royalties due. Oversaw advertising and all aspects of the general daily running of a successful small business.